Show HONOR EARLY DAY PRINTERS Set Type for Declaration of Independence and Constitution PHILADELPHIA Nov No Associated d After a a. century end and a a. quarter of obscurity the two to p inters who first printed the Declara- Declara Declaration tion of of Independence the Constitution Constitution tion of the United States Washington's Washing Washing- tons ton's farewell address and thc first dally newspaper r In America were ere hon hon- honored ored Thursday when a a. b bronze ue tablet was d tn in their memory They were Captain John Dunlap and nd Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant Lieutenant tenant David C C. Claypoole soldiers of the Revolution Re They conducted the print shop of Dunlap and Uld Claypoole on tM the site of what is 15 now and Market street The property now Is owned by bythe bythe the Horn and Hardart Baking com com- company company pany and the tablet commemorating the services of the colonial printers was placed by the Historical Society or of appropriate te ex- ex Dunlap and Claypoole were the of- of official official printers to congress and personal friends of Washington As officers inthe In Inthe the American Revolutionary arm army and and practical newspaper men these patri were said to have exercised great grent power in molding the public opinion of their day Captain Dunlap who emigrated from Ireland in 1755 when he wu was eight years old and died In 1812 be- be began began gan the pUbliCAtion of a weekly n news news- newspaper ws Packet paper Pennsylvania and General Advertiser in 1771 and it became a a. daily In 1784 Lieutenant Claypoole wu was born In Philadelphia In 1757 of Quaker par par- parents parents and died at the aGe of 92 He was an apprentice to Dunlap and as- as assisted slated tn In the publication ot of the Packet and was Dunlap's partner in getting out the first dally daily newspaper in Amer- Amer America Ica |